{"id":7450,"date":"2025-05-18T21:56:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T02:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7450"},"modified":"2025-05-22T21:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T02:58:09","slug":"7450","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/05\/18\/7450\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/article-854425\">\u201cShin Bet arrests Yavne resident who spied on Naftali Bennett for Iran,\u201d<\/a> JPost, 5-18-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/iran-foreign-minister-vows-nuclear-enrichment-continue-with-without-deal\">\u201cIran foreign minister vows nuclear enrichment will continue &#8216;with or without a deal&#8217;,\u201d<\/a> Fox, 5-18-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/18\/us\/politics\/trump-witkoff-iran-nuclear.html\">\u201cTrump Envoy Says Iran Must Give Up Nuclear Enrichment Capability,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 5-18-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/hamas-document-shows-oct-7-attack-aimed-at-derailing-saudi-normalization-report\/\">\u201cHamas document shows Oct. 7 attack aimed at derailing Saudi normalization \u2013 report,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 5-28-25.\u00a0\u00a0Similar, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/hamas-wanted-to-torpedo-israel-saudi-deal-with-oct-7-attacks-documents-reveal-a70ec560\">\u201cHamas Wanted to Torpedo Israel-Saudi Deal With Oct. 7 Attacks, Documents Reveal,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 5-18-25.\u00a0\u00a0And remember a key element in this WSJ story.\u00a0 \u201cThe Journal, citing senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah, has reported that another meeting connected to the attack took place on Oct. 2 that year, this one in Beirut involving representatives of Hamas and Iranian security officials. Iran approved the planned attack, those people said. \u2026 Senior officials from Iran and Hezbollah had been discussing attack options with Hamas since the summer of 2021. Iran also gave Hamas weapons, financing and training over a long period, including combat training in the weeks before Oct. 7, according to intelligence officials from several countries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShin Bet arrests Yavne resident who spied on Naftali Bennett for Iran,\u201d JPost, 5-18-25. \u201cIran foreign minister vows nuclear enrichment will continue &#8216;with or without a deal&#8217;,\u201d Fox, 5-18-25. \u201cTrump Envoy Says Iran Must Give Up Nuclear Enrichment Capability,\u201d NYT, 5-18-25. \u201cHamas document shows Oct. 7 attack aimed at derailing Saudi normalization \u2013 report,\u201d Times &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/05\/18\/7450\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7451,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450\/revisions\/7451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}